Phonograph-doll



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No. 400,851} Patented Apr. 2, 1889.

Wimesaes l nufiivr I the body of the doll, provided it is in free UNITED STATES PATENT OFF R WILLIAM w. JACQUES, oruEwToN, MAssAonUsErrs, A ssIeNoR TO THE- EDISON PHoNoeRArn'roY MANUFACTURI G COMPANY, or MAINE.

PHONQGRAPH-DOLL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,851, dated April 2,1889.

Application filed November 30, .188

To all whom it may concern,- I

Be it known that I, \VILLIAM W. JACQUES,

of Newton,in the eountyot Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Phonograph-Dolls, of whieh thetollowing is a specification.

My present invention relates to certain improvements in phonograph-dolls, and will b 1 connecting the diaphragm of the phonograph with an opening in the top of the dolls head, foifithe purpose of conducting the sound from the diaphragm of the phonograph to the outside of the doll, and also for the "purpose of selecting ands 're-enforcing the talking emitted by the,diaphragm, to the exclusion of other sounds. I find by 'further experiment that tube and utilize the air-space inclosed within communication with the diaphragm of the phonograph, as a resonating-ehamb er to select I and re-enforce the talking emitted by the diase g; the walls of such resonating-cavity be made phragm; and I find, moreover, that I may do awaywith the orifice .for the emissions of I may advantageously remove this resonant sound,.provided the head or body composing of material easily set in vibration, like papier;

mach, thin metal, thin wood, thin bisque, or,

infa'ct, such materials as the heads and shoulders of dolls are most usually made of. I get excellent results by mounting the phonograph inside a dolls body made of papier-niach or tin, and completing the doll by a hollow head of papi'er-mach' or bisque, the cavity within the body and head'acting'as aresonator to clarify and re-efiforce the talkingemitted by the diaph'ragm,-- and the walls of these materials readily allowing these clarified and re- T taining a phonograph and having a hollow enforced vibrations tobecommunicated to the outside air,

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 isa sectional view of thebodyof a doll conhead to serve as a resonating chambeix Fig.

'tion is perforated at 0.

the bottom into an annular cavity; 0, the walls 70' a Serial No. 292,249. (No modeli) 2 is a similar view with my improved globular resonator attached to the phonograph, in which g is the diaphragm forced into vibration by means of the phonograph record in'the manner described in my. previous patent above referred to, and c 0 indicate the resonatingcavity in free communication with said diaphragm, and d (I indicatethe head and body of the doll forming the walls of said" cavity.

\Vhen I wish to make the talking of the dolls particularly loud and clear, I attach to the phonograph a further resonator of the for-mshown in Fig. 2 of the accompanying drawings.

This consists of a hollow globe, b,open at the top, so that its cavity is-in free communication '65 with the cavity 0 (a This globe is divided. into two parts, of unequal size and different shape,

by the conical-shaped partition to, which parti- The globe opens at of this cavity inclosing the diaphragm g on its upper side.

The form both of the. resonator and the partition which divides it (shown in Fig'.- 2 and above described) is the best I have yet discovered, though they may be considerably varied without great detriment to its efficiency. The essential features are a globular resonator open at the top, divided into two parts ofunequal size and different shape by a perforated diaphragm, and communicating at the bottom with an annular space inclosing the upper side of the diaphragm. I prefer to make the resonator of zinc, as this gives a good quality to the sounds emitted by 8 5 the.diaphragm; but- I may make it of wood,

papier-mach, or other resonant material.

This resonator, of course, may be used with a doll havlng either a closed or a perforated body, or may be used on a phonograph without any inclosing dolls body; but the series of cavities e, (L, Z), and a give the most pleasing quality of tone to the talking emitted by the fliitpllltl-glll that I have yet obtained;

In view of the above-described improvements, I claim '1. The combination of aphonograph and a doll provided with a body containing and carrying said phonograph,and a slum" .two portiona by a perforatedconical partition, 10W 51336611} communication with thi am substantially as described; v v phmgmandwi'thin the doll. i In testimonywhereof I. have signed my 2. Thecombination of a phonographdand a name to thi specificzption, in'the pliesence of 5 doll provided with 2L Body carrying said fiwo subscribing witnesses; this 27th day-xi 1 phonograph, and a closed hollow headto act November, 1888.-- as a resonatoy. v

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